The principal capital expenditure requirement for the establishment of an ACT-Diesel refinery include the cost of land, factory buildings, equipment and so on, as well as the build up of stock of waste oil and management fees for managing the site for the first three month period.

Please refer to "Investment & Revenue" for more details.
Land requirement is approximately 3,000 m2. Please refer to "Manufacturing Diagram" for more details.
Besides purchasing the land, it is necessary to estimate the costs of facilities and equipment, together with the expenses of management and materials etc.

※Mangement expenses includes, Water, Electricity, Waste Oil and Personnel.
Electric Power is essential to the refinery operation, so it is included in the management expenses.

"ACT-Diesel Advanced Cracking Technology" also named "ECOTECH" is a world-wide patented technology registered in 11 nations, converting waste oil to #2 diesel by high-temperature. .Basic equipment comprises of one high-temperature splitting decomposition stove, one rectification device and one high-pressure air-cooled condenser. Put together these core components make up the ACT-Diesel refining unit so that 85 to 95 percent of hydrocarbon is separated from waste oil. The operating temperature of the system provides similar working conditions for the splitting and decomposition of the waste oil into diesel, the same as the process of separating diesel out of crude oil from a distillation column, known as the "Topping Process" in refineries. The quality of the diesel produced by the ACT-Diesel refining plant is very close to the diesel #2, produced by a refinery “Topping Process”.

The area of ground which an ACT-Diesel Refinery requires is approximately 1,300 m2, and with other considerations, including health & safety with the proximity of tanks and vessels to land boundaries etc, it is recommended that an area of around 3,000 m2 should be made available for the site layout.

ACT-Diesel operates on a Batch Type process. It needs 87 hours to complete the total operation of product conversion. The manpower requirement, - needs only six staff members divided into 3 shifts and 8 hours a day monitoring the process. It needs another two assistants to help in the process of clearance of the splitting decomposition stove after 87 hours of operation. The ACT-Diesel Refinery is equipped with a Digital Control System, so the process is managed by remote control. Therefore the operator “Hands on”manpower requirement is very low.

From a safety point of view, operating ACT-Diesel by Batch Type for cracking oil at high-temperature is ideal. The splitting decomposition stove needs cleaning after every 87 hour operating cycle. It takes about ten hours to clean down the unit and the setting up the control equipment and preparation of the next charge. Also, it gives the operator the opportunity to examine the stove every 87 hour cycle. It helps to make the operation safe. During the last 10 years or so, 18 refining plants (over 42 groups of the main workstation) of the ACT-Diesel Technology units, have been running in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, completely accident free.

In terms of budget costs, the total cost of the core components of an ACT-Diesel Refinery, including patent rights authorization, is in the order of USD. $2,800,000. Other items to consider in the calculation are various other expenses and fees for the factory such as oil storage tanks, security equipment, factory buildings and etc. These additional costs could bring the total budget to USD. $3,500,000. This level of investment should be considered to be the minimum required, but as shown elsewhere, the return on investment is excellent. Other (so called) comparable technologies for refining used (waste) oil are considerably more expensive – something in the order of USD. $5,000,000 for the core equipment, excluding land and other items. To date, there are 17 refining plants (39 groups of the main workstation) of the waste oil to diesel refining process - the ACT-Diesel Technology based systems, operating in countries such as Canada, U.S.A., Spain, Poland, Slovenia, Korea S., Singapore, and etc. It is true to say that ACT-Diesel is the most advanced and commercially viable technology amongst all the refining plants in the market today, borne out by its successful performance. It is proving to be “First Choice!”